From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [9fans] The utility of a chording pad From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2007 07:35:32 -0400 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9e0a45aa-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > If I recall correctly Rob Pike's comments in this forum a long time > ago apropos the issue of customisation, I would suggest that such a > chording pad would be more frustrating than useful. It goes almost > without saying that the generality of such a device lends itself to > insane re-configuration by each user, with dramatic, if potentially > humorous results. i think it's hard to say without doing an experiment. there is no reason one needs to use all the combinations. so it would be interesting to add a forth button. perhaps one could disambiguate between Look and Open. (how many times have you had to play tricks because there is a symbol wumpus and file wumpus?) > Consider that there are twelve function keys on the conventional > keyboard and Plan 9 uses none of them. Nevermind the new keyboards > with the full Jumbo Jet console on them. that's because they're not standard. you can use them if you map them with /dev/kbmap. cpu% cat fkeys 0 59 '=E2=98=BA 0 60 '=E2=98=B9 =E2=98=BA erik